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Dictionary of Medieval Names
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Gibeon m. Hebrew גבעון.

The name of a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem. Wycliffite Bible (1395): Gabaon; Geneva Bible (1587): Gibeon.

The use of the place name as a personal name dates from the 16th C.

England
Early Modern English
● 1592 Gibeon bruton1 p. 51
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Gibeon". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2019, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2019/1/name/Gibeon.